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Originally Posted by edjen01
people actually take Rush seriously? you've got to be kidding. i haven't paid any attention to him...since he got kicked off that nfl pre-game show for making racist comments.
if he's back screaming at anything and everything...then its time for him to go back on the meds.
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Originally Posted by Thomas Trini
What racist comments? You mean the thing about McNabb? Funny, there was a black commentator who made the same comment a month ago, and credited Rush for pointing it out in the first place.
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Limbaugh didn't get kicked off or fired from Sunday NFL Countdown ... he resigned from the show.
I doubt you know the story or have read the quote ... most likely just heard the bits and pieces of spin. For those who haven't seen the quote, here's it is:
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"McNabb is overrated ... what we have here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback can do well—black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well."
"There's a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."
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For those who know the situation and paid attention to it ... Limbaugh's comments were not at all racist. Read the quote again ... where's the racism?
In fact, look at this, from Sports Illustrated:
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A black commentator, J. Whyatt Mondesire, the head of the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP, actually wrote in his newspaper that McNabb was a "mediocre at best" quarterback who was "trying to disguise that fact behind some concocted reasoning that African-American quarterbacks who can scramble and who can run the ball are somehow lesser field generals..."
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And Limbaugh's racist for saying almost the same thing?
Not so...
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